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How to add a link to the rest of the paragraph in SharePoint Announcements?

How can I create a link to the rest of the paragraph in an announcement in SharePoint, that displays the word: read more Cheers ...

Document version column in spreadsheet view

I try to open MOSS document library in spreadsheet view and when I add version of document. I see it in regular view and don't see in spreadsheet view. When I try to export to Excel I get the same problem Any ideas? ...

How do you modify existing SharePoint sites?

I often have customer requesting changing properties, like the version history setting on all document libraries on all existing sites on a farm. So far the best solution I have been able to think of is to script it in Powershell, test the script before I run it, and then pray that I have not overlooked something critical. Is there a be...

Where can I find good programming resources for SharePoint?

I have been trying to find a book or web reference that gives me good understanding on how to build, test, and deploy ASP.NET pages, controls, and web parts to a SharePoint web site. All I have found so far is either draggy-droppy stuff or administration stuff. Is SharePoint really flexible with ASP.NET when is comes to extending it? A ...

SharePoint 404 page

Is the best place set the 404 error page for SharePoint within the web.config customError section or is there a configuration setting on the site collection/ web application? ...

MOSS 2007 Wiki Export to MS Word or PDF

Hello, I've started using MOSS 2007's wiki feature for storing the ongoing technical documentation related to a project I'm working on, and it occurred to me after I started writing a few pages that there's no easy way to export out all of the pages into one document. For those of you familiar with MOSS 2007, any ideas how this might b...

How can i know if a given SPWeb is a SearchCenter site programmatically

I have a SPWeb object and I want to know whether or not this is a SearchCenter site. How can I know it programmatically. Is there some setting to check or a guid to match etc? ...

Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) and Forms Authentication - Passing those credentials to other ASP.NET Forms Authentication Apps

Sorry for the poor title here :) I have my WSS configured for Forms Authentication. I'd like my users to land on the WSS login page, log in, and then provide them links to other ASP.NET apps which also are configured for forms authentication. I'd like to achieve a single-signon-ish solution (the reason I say "ish" is I'm not looking ...

DefaultCredentials in Accessing CRM / Sharepoint Web Services

Hi everyone, I made an application that access CRM's web service. The problem is, when I deployed the dll into Sharepoint server, it returned error 401 unauthorized. Apparently the System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials didn't work (my suspicion). Here's the code. CrmSdk.CrmAuthenticationToken token = new CrmSdk.CrmAuthenticatio...

SharePoint: Back up single page.

Hi, I need to back up a sharepoint web page which containts web parts and other html tweaks. I would like to keep a back up of the page itself with the web parts in the appropriate places, is this possible? Right now I just opened SharePoint designer, opened my page and saved as to my hard drive. Is there another way? Is this a compl...

How can I include value of sharepoint's version column in a word document?

I'm trying to work out a way to display the contents of the version column from sharepoint (i.e. the value that changes every time a file is checked in) as a field (or something similar) inside of a word document. Ideally, I'd like to know how to configure sharepoint so I could click something like "Insert > Quick Parts > Document Prope...

SharePoint Solution Deployment: How do I prevent SP from resetting IIS when upgrading or retracting a globally deployed solutions?

So I figured out that by adding the ResetWebServer="FALSE" attribute to the solution manifest prevents SharePoint from recycling any app pools. However, when upgrading a solution that originally did not specify ResetWebServer="FALSE" or when retracting a solution that does specify ResetWebServer="FALSE", the application pools are still ...

Document Library Versions.aspx in Sharepoint

1.I have a user that wants to view the current items version history on the dispform.aspx(Item Details) 2.The version history must display all metadata for each version. Library has 5 columns and I need to display the data in those columns everytime the version changes. I have been trying to get the version information using SharePoint ...

Create a new field and update a content type (and all implementations)

I'm doing some work on an existing SharePoint site and part of what I need to do is create a new field on an existing content type. I'm going to be deploying changes via a feature so I'm debating whether I use CAML to generate the field and then programmatically add it to the existing content type, or whether I can just do it all via th...

Accessing SharePoint Web Services over Silverlight

Hello, I have a problem to access SharePoint Webservice over Silverlight. An error occurred while trying to make a request to URI 'http://sample:8000/_vti_bin/Authentication.asmx'. This could be due to attempting to access a service in a cross-domain way without a proper cross-domain policy in place, or a policy that is ...

Show icon depending on page property

On a content type in a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) site I want to show an icon if the property is a certain value. The column is a Yes/ No so the selected value should be fairly easy to determine. So how can I, in the ASPX, show read the value? I know I need to modify the web.config to allow for in-page C#, but I'm just not sure how to find...

Moving MOSS Shared Service Provider

Hi I'm in the process of moving a complete sharepoint install to a different server. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to just move the existing Shared Services Provider rather than starting from scratch? All the best ...

Documentation tools which integrate with Sharepoint?

Are there any documentation tools that easily integrate with Sharepoint 2007? With integrate I mean, that the tool provides means of publishing documentation to Sharepoint 2007 which are indexed and searchable from within Sharepoint. BTW: We use currently use HelpStudio. ...

How do I limit a user's permision in Sharepoint to a single survey

I have a user group set up in Sharepoint that has permission to access to a single site. I would like to restrict this groups access futher to a single survey within that site. Is there any way to set Sharepoint permissions to a more granular level? ...

How do I open search center web for a given site

I can determine the search center page for a site using: site.OpenWeb().AllProperties["SRCH_ENH_FTR_URL"] If I have multiple sites in a web application say site1 and site2. site1 has searchcenter page. site2 does not have one. But for site 2 if i put /SearchCenter/Pages for the search center. It uses the site1's search center. Howev...